Stories from Thursday, December 3, 2015

Bedford Drug, 629 N. Main St., will host a Holiday Open House Friday. Time is 9 a.m.-6 p.m. There will be food, fun, prizes and discounts. For more information, call Mindee Howard at 680-1035.

Bell Buckle Chamber of Commerce will present "An Old Fashioned Christmas" this Saturday and the following two Saturdays (Dec. 12 and 19). There will be free sleigh rides with Santa from noon until 4 p.m. each day; complimentary coffee, tea, cookies and sweets, including a free s'mores pit, at Southern Charm from noon until 5 p.m. each day...

To the editor: It's sad to see a bill from Rep. Scott DesJarlais that tries to turn lawbreakers into victims and the dutiful staff of the U.S. Department of Agriculture into perpetrators. The Congressman's bill is built on false assumptions...

Middle Tennessee State University senior Michael A. Green is the recipient of MTSU's 2015 Chitwood Award for Excellence for his plan to help best-selling author Benjamin Hoff reclaim ownership of his renowned book "The Tao of Pooh." The award was presented in a special ceremony today, Dec. 1, in MTSU's Bragg Media and Entertainment Building...

Another report of a business being entered during a burglary spree Saturday through Monday in eastern Shelbyville has been reported. An employee of Kandi's Kars, Madison Street, told police a window on a building had been pried and security cameras inside and outside had been moved. He was unable to determine if anything had been stolen...

Ever hear the term "Good things come to those who wait?" It's a hard concept to grasp in the age of technology and information available at your fingertips. With cell phones and virtually any information available in the palm of your hands, people have grown accustomed to getting what they want, when they want...

It's no fun to be a kid in the hospital. It's even less fun to be a kid in the hospital on Christmas morning. Tori Hull, 13, a seventh grader at Cascade Middle School, collected $1,000 worth of Christmas toys and personal care items last year for families at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt...

Two men and a teenager allegedly present at the time Angela Kibble was murdered in September have been charged with especially aggravated burglary, investigators day. Chase Leland Gross, 24, of Dover Street, Raheem Devuin Maxwell, 19, of Ripley and a 17-year-old male were arrested Tuesday by Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents...

A "preliminary assessment" of the latest flume collapse suggests high water, along with a busted storm water pipe, may have caused the newest damage. According to city manager Jay Johnson, it is now believed the volume of water coming through, together with the river being high, caused water to backflow underneath the flume...

Emmett D. Arnold, 73, of Shelbyville died Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015 at Life Care Center in Tullahoma. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 9 at Hillcrest Funeral Home with the Rev. Mark Ashley and the Rev. Lee Baucom officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. Tuesday.

Theo Simmons Hickerson, 98, of Shelbyville died Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015 at Christian Care Center of Bedford County after an extended illness. Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens with Phillip Crawley officiating. Visitation will begin at 1 p.m. at Hillcrest Funeral Home.